Sarah Robson Barrister
0800 634 9650
The original Black Belt Barrister
email@sarahrobsonbarrister.co.uk
Fixed Costs Specialist
HHJ Simpkiss (Designated Circuit Judge)
with DJ Lethem (Regional Costs Judge) as assessor
Tunbridge Wells CC, 23rd Jan 2014
(First Tier Appeal - Fixed costs can be awarded on assessment; not limited to when order for costs made/agreed)
Master Simmons, SCCO, 30th October 2013
(Appeal to SCCO - Fixed costs can be awarded on assessment and 'standard basis' does not exclude fixed costs)
Williams v Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
(CPR 45.24 could not be used, but the court could get to the same result otherwise)
Timothy Taylor & 27 Ors v ZStage (UK) Ltd Real China Restaurant
DJ Griffith, Birmingham CC, 3rd September 2019
(Following total non-use of the Portal, an agreement by way of Tomlin Order to settle damages counted as a judgment for the purposes of CPR 45.24, and the court ordered the Defendant to pay no more than portal costs under CPR 45.24(2)(c))
The Claimant indicated they were going to appeal, but ultimately did not do so
Recorder Morgan, Leicester CC, 5th Dec 2011
(The court held that CPR 45.24 applied to restrict the Claimant to no more than Portal costs where they had left the Portal unreasonably.)